Areas
- Public Health
- Hospital-related services
- Quality Assurance
- Research and development
- Crime laboratory\forensics
- Red cross
- Medical Writing\illustration
- Environmental health
Employers
- Public laboratories
- Private laboratories
- Medical Director
- Clinical Manager
- Marketing/sales
- Chemistry
- Drug testing
- Hematology
- Microbiology
- International and national organizations
- Genetic Laboratories
Strategies
- Collecting patient blood specimens and packing, inspecting, and distributing blood and blood products, such as donated plasma.
- Assembling, disassembling, and maintaining laboratory equipment.
- Record keeping.
- Design and conduct studies that investigate both human diseases and methods to prevent and treat them.
- Prepare and analyze medical samples and data to investigate causes and treatment of toxicity, pathogens, or chronic diseases.
- Standardize drug potency, doses, and methods to allow for the mass manufacturing and distribution of drugs and medicinal compounds.
- Create and test medical devices.
- Develop programs that improve health outcomes, in partnership with health departments, industry personnel, and physicians.
- Write research grant proposals and apply for funding from government agencies and private funding sources.